[PATCH v2 4/4] hugetlbfs: clean up command line processing

Randy Dunlap rdunlap at infradead.org
Thu Apr 2 05:55:01 AEDT 2020


On 4/1/20 11:38 AM, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> With all hugetlb page processing done in a single file clean up code.
> - Make code match desired semantics
>   - Update documentation with semantics
> - Make all warnings and errors messages start with 'HugeTLB:'.
> - Consistently name command line parsing routines.
> - Check for hugepages_supported() before processing parameters.
> - Add comments to code
>   - Describe some of the subtle interactions
>   - Describe semantics of command line arguments
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz at oracle.com>
> ---

Hi Mike,
One nit, please see below:

>  .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt         | 35 ++++---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst  | 44 +++++++++
>  mm/hugetlb.c                                  | 96 +++++++++++++++----
>  3 files changed, 142 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> index 1bd5454b5e5f..de653cfe1726 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -832,12 +832,15 @@
>  			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
>  
>  	default_hugepagesz=
> -			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
> -			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
> -			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
> -			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
> -			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
> -			if not specified.
> +			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page size. This

			Drop one "size" above?

> +			is the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
> +			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
> +			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
> +			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
> +			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
> +			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
> +			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
> +			Format: size[KMG]



-- 
~Randy



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